Artifact Details
Investigators recovered this gym bag from the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 93 that terrorists crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on 11 September 2001. The bag is tattered and torn, with its Flight 93 luggage tag still attached.
The gym bag belonged to Deora Bodley, the youngest passenger aboard Flight 93, and was donated to CIA Museum by her mother. A junior studying French and psychology at Santa Clara University, Bodley loved children and volunteered with many charity groups, including the Special Olympics, a local animal shelter, and the San Diego Zoo. Aspiring to become a child psychologist, she was a peer counselor to troubled teens and tutored in an after-school program. Bodley was visiting in New Jersey and due to return home to California on another flight, but wanting to get back to friends and family as soon as possible, she took a standby seat on Flight 93.